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This section of the web-site is based on a self-update system serviced and maintained from within the community. Adding, deleting and editing is a very simple, non-time consuming exercise, when the information is provided by organisations and groups within the community. An approach will be made to your community in the very near future regarding the collation and updating of information within ... [more]

The Youth Club is now a regular meeting place for the children of the village aged 9-12years old. It is held every Thursday from 6.30 until 8pm in the Village Hall. Contact is: rossirvine@cheviotyouth.co.uk or 07725 845766 for more info. ... [more]

Adam Murdie Hogg was born on 15 October 1895 in New Belses, Roxburghshire. Follow his life to Canada and back to fight in WW1, where he was killed and awarded the Military Medal for Bravery, posthumously. Adam Murdie Hogg ... [more]

I have just received a photo of Ancrum Old Parish Church and Graveyard from Karen Richardson in Alberta, Canada, whose husband's ancestors are interred in Ancrum Graveyard. They were James and Elinor Hogg who lived at Old Belses. Their son, Alexander emigrated to Canada and the following generations still stay near Elnora in Alberta. The area is named after the wives of two postmasters - El ... [more]

A picture believed to have been taken of pupils at Sandystones School about 1900. The young very smart lad in the front row, dressed in the striped jacket is James Hogg, whose relatives sent the photo from Alberta, Canada. Can anyone add to the names of the people in the photo? ... [more]

Larry McKay from Canada, e-mailed the Ancrum Site asking for assistance in trying to trace his ancestors, but including reference to an interesting story. His grandmother was Elizabeth Rutherford Scott who lived at 3 The Knowe with his grandfather James William Scott. Whilst going through items left to him, he found a Tartan Blanket or Plaid which had attached to it an article from the The K ... [more]